Consultant
Greater Philadelphia Area
- Past
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- Director of Operations at CETRA, Inc.
- Intern at Rencontres Traduction Financière
- French Teaching Assistant at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
- Education
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- The University of Georgia
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Beth Podrovitz’s Summary
CETRA services include translation, interpretation, localization, multilingual typesetting, voice-overs, and transcriptions for corporate and government clients in nearly 100 languages. Its worldwide network of more than 4,000 professional linguists and dedicated staff provide professional, friendly, responsive service that saves you time, simplifies the process for you and makes working with CETRA a pleasure.
Beth Podrovitz’s Specialties:
CETRA provides translation and interpretation services to the following industries: marketing research, legal, life sciences, government, and many others. We are a holder of the Federal GSA schedule for translation and interpretation services and a member of the US delegation to ISO.
Beth Podrovitz’s Experience
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Director of Operations
CETRA, Inc.
(Privately Held; Translation and Localization industry)
July 2004 — December 2008 (4 years 6 months)
• Monitor the company’s overall production of translation and interpretation projects. Oversee the successful execution of complex translation and interpretation projects across various industry verticals, including ones that involve multiple foreign languages and that require value-added services such as desktop publishing and project management.
• Improve and maintain the service-delivery procedures to track jobs received from clients, to support translation work, and to educate clients and vendors.
• Supervise projects’ resource allocation including trafficking projects to team members, capacity planning, scheduling, and budget tracking while coordinating the efforts of each vendor and client to ensure that quality and turnaround are optimized.
• Recruit, train, mentor, and supervise a team of project managers and production staff.
• Interface and coordinate with the company’s president to aid in sales development and determine and manage project risk. -
Intern
Rencontres Traduction Financière
(Translation and Localization industry)
June 2003 — June 2003 (1 month)
• Assisted in the top-level organization of the 8th Euronext Paris Financial Translation Workshop, an international professional seminar dedicated to the contributions and overall promotion of the translation business.
• Responsible for proofreading and translation work in both English-to-French and French-to-English contexts.
• Participated in several special projects related to the strategic and tactical operations of the France-based translation firm. -
French Teaching Assistant
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)
August 2001 — May 2003 (1 year 10 months)
• Responsible for the planning, teaching, and evaluation of French language courses at the university level.
• Promoted supplementary French cultural education with innovative class and extracurricular activities.
• Actively assisted Foreign Language department colleagues in providing a top-notch French education to college students, while assisting in the department’s ongoing improvement initiatives.
Beth Podrovitz’s Education
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The University of Georgia
Certificate , Principles of Marketing Research , 2005 — 2007
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MA , Translation , 2001 — 2003
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA , French , 1996 — 1998
Additional Information
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Beth Podrovitz’s Interests:
organizational and professional development, strategic planning, international travel, cooking, reading novels, French culture, languages, movies, dancing
Beth Podrovitz’s Groups:
Vistage 9008, ATA, PMI, Pi Delta Phi
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Professional Researcher Certification -
CETRA Language Solutions
Beth Podrovitz’s Contact Settings
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